Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

Whats the role?

As a technical, hands-on Test Engineer, your job is to participate in the manual and automation testing of various web-based vendor applications. You will be under the mentorship of a Test Engineering Manager for a team with an already-established, mature testing process.

Your role will require that you have a strong appreciation and skill in manual/exploratory and automation testing. Time and training is allotted after hiring to learn our automation framework and language of choice Node.js.

Role Responsibilities:

* Setting up test environments, designing test plans, developing and executing test cases/scenarios/use cases.
* Develop test plans for each product release and define test cases to support the test plan.
* Update test process documentation, connect with stakeholders
* Manage testing for releases
* Work with developers to provide additional research and debugging and resolving issues
* Identify risks, track, investigate, and resolve any issues.
* Manage and automate end-to-end(UI/API), regression, ETL, and performance tests.
* Design, implement and maintain cross-platform test automation scripts

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

* 4+ years of experience with web-based application testing
* 2+ years of professional experience as an Automation Engineer working in an agile environment
* 2+ years of RESTful services testing experience and 2+ years of UI Testing experience
* Experience reviewing business requirements, coordinating with business partners to identify test scenarios, and defect management.
* Solid understanding of writing API tests and execute manual tests with Postman
* Experience with using Fiddler or Wireshark, Postman, Browser DevTools, CLIs. Any similar experience is acceptable for manual testing and analysis needing to be performed in the role.
* Solid understanding of different element locator strategies and the ability to write custom XPath, CSSPath
* Working proficiency of at-least one programming language preferably Node.js.
* Ability and confidence to peer-review code for quality, cleanliness, and general best practices.
* Understanding of Git version control including branch strategy. Familiarity with GitLab, GitLab CI, Docker and Jenkins for CI/CD is helpful but not required.
* Experience using Selenium
* Familiarity with HTML, CSS, REST APIs, JSON, RDBMS, XML/YAML, ETL, Postman.
* Can move quickly and independently. Everyone here is incredibly kind and very willing to share knowledge and a helping hand, but you need to be willing to take ownership of the outlined goals and make things happen.

Education:

* Bachelors degree with an emphasis in Computer Science, Computer Engineering preferred or equivalent experience

Benefits:

* Tons of room for career growth! We are at the beginning and the team will be growing - leadership positions are there for the taking if you show the desire.
* Highly technical and hardworking fellow test engineers. We care a lot about what we do and are very active in local meetups and love new insights.
* Flexible work schedules
* Employee tuition reimbursement
* Group Life and disability income insurance
* Competitive benefits- medical/dental/vision, retirement, PTO, bonuses, and highly competitive salary

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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.